Olympics-centered Malicious Software Extremely Probable

Security Company Symantec warns that hackers could exploit the 2012 Olympic Games as they seek using social engineering tactics for disseminating malicious software along with other infections. Hotnews published this on July 7, 2011.

Stated Technical product manager Graham Ahearne of Symantec's EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) division, usually cyber-criminals concentrated on anything that was popular as also everything that drew an audience's interest. Thereafter they would utilize those things in operations which contaminated users' computers, he continued. Bcs published this on July 7, 2011.

Ahearne added that based on the above reasoning, it could be said that no matter if it was the Olympic Games alternatively any calamity worldwide, whenever any subject acquired distinction within the media, the online crooks proceeded in employing search engine corruption. 'Women in Technology' published this on July 7, 2011.

States Vice-President of Technical Strategy Bradley Anstis at M86 Security, analysis at his company revealed that a rise had already begun. United Kingdom's contribution increased from 3.34% during H2-2010 to a maximum of 5.19% during H1-2011. Anstis said that it was M86's belief that the said kind of attack would continue as the 2012 event got closer. InformationAge published this on July 19, 2011.

Moreover according to Anstis, incase the source of malware had any correlation with nations, which hosted prominent games occasions, then there would be considerable rises in the malicious codes UK would host during the period preceding the 2012 event.

Nevertheless, senior technology consultant Graham Cluley at Sophos stated that the reasons explaining the alleged growth in malware within UK could be manifold. According to him, suppose Taiwan had a few malevolent ISPs that hosted plentiful malevolent websites, but currently they had been busted then its impact would occur on everybody else's statistics, with those statistics being purely coincidence. InformationAge published this.

Furthermore, Cluley added that in reality wherever one visited across the Web, it'd be necessary for him to run an online scrutiny of the websites for checking whether they had any hostile content as it wouldn't be surprising if those were actually legitimate websites that had been contaminated.